On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:37, Leon Brooks wrote: The only problem with attaching all the devices to the server, is that it is in a secure room, and our offices are quite spread out. not to mention usb cable lenght limitations.
But it sounds like their is one or more decent solutions, damn I love linux..... I am very excited about mdk's development of these services. Cluster nfs promisses to be quite fun to play with. > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:01, Stew Benedict wrote: > >> Usb periferials like scanners? > > > > Should get mostly the same behaviour as the normal system. You may have > > to do some manual config for the client, possibly. The problem you run > > into is the server root fs is readonly, for some degree of security, so > > you can't create client configs on-the-fly, sitting at the client > > machine. > > For this specific case and given the way SANE works, it doesn't really > matter where the scanner is physically plugged in, so it may well work out > easier, physical restrictions permitting, to plug a scanner into the server > and share it SANEly from there. > > Likewise printers and CUPS, modems and ssh. A generic character-over-IP > device driver - if none already exists for Linux - would even permit > sharing mice, keyboards et al like that. (-: > > Cheers; Leon -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal �ther, determined by a geometrical necessity...." ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
